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Where ever you look, there are things sucking cash away from frontline services.
From the guardian.co.uk
America will respond by sucking up every bit it can in and around North America.
From the economist.com
They generally feed on tender new growth with their piercing-sucking mouthparts.
From the post-gazette.com
Consultants queued up with their hands out, proffering money-sucking strategies.
From the sfgate.com
Sucking also is a way for children to comfort and relax themselves, Glinka said.
From the dailyherald.com
China has been sucking away our jobs and selling us inferior products in return.
From the jsonline.com
Many press curled fists tightly to mouths and noses, as if sucking their thumbs.
From the chron.com
I think politicians are just sucking up to get votes for their next re-election.
From the sacbee.com
The myth of unions sucking at the public teat is one propagated to destroy them.
From the economist.com
- Sucking: the act of sucking
- Draw into the mouth by creating a practical vacuum in the mouth; "suck the poison from the place where the snake bit"; "suck on a straw"; "the baby sucked on the mother's breast"
- Draw something in by or as if by a vacuum; "Mud was sucking at her feet"
- Attract by using an inexorable force, inducement, etc.; "The current boom in the economy sucked many workers in from abroad"
- Be inadequate or objectionable; "this sucks!"
- Fellate: provide sexual gratification through oral stimulation
- Absorb: take in, also metaphorically; "The sponge absorbs water well"; "She drew strength from the minister's words"
- Breastfeed: give suck to; "The wetnurse suckled the infant"; "You cannot nurse your baby in public in some places"
- Suck were a rock band who were part of South Africa's first wave of hard rock titled, the "Big Heavies." The group lasted eight months between 1970 to 1971 in which they recorded their lone LP, Time to Suck. It was later released in America in 2009."". Allmusic. ...
